environmental justice Archives : EcoLit Books

Book Review: A Darker Wilderness, edited by Erin Sharkey

September 8, 2023 by Lillie Gardner

Cover of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey

New this year from Milkweed Editions is a must-read essay collection of powerful Black nature writing. Originated and edited by Erin Sharkey, A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil …

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Book Review: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage

June 21, 2022 by Lillie Gardner

book cover for Kathryn Savage's Groundglass, the words around broken fragments

Kathryn Savage’s gorgeous lyric essay Groundglass is a poetic reckoning with environmental pollution and its unavoidable connection to human bodies. In the book, available August 2nd from Coffee House Press, Savage blends tough …

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